Vulnerability record · CVE-2020-12845 · published 27 July 2020

CVE-2020-12845: Cherokee-project cherokee null pointer dereference vulnerability

Cherokee Project · Cherokee

Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences. A remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the server by sending an HTTP request to protected resources using a malformed Authorization header that is mishandled during a cherokee_buffer_add call within cherokee_validator_parse_basic or cherokee_validator_parse_digest.

7.5 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 3.2% · top 12.3% CWE-476 · NULL pointer dereference

7.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 5.0

3.2%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

8References, 2 tagged exploit

17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Cherokee Cherokee Project

References

Link	Tags
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html	Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242	ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09	Third Party Advisory
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html	Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242	ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09	Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2020-12845), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.